JMSorensenResume-TX09

Janice M. Sorensen ********.******@*****.***

**** ****, #*

Dallas, Texas 75214

810-***-****-Mobile / 214-***-****-Home

Objective: Utilize my Journalism, Technical Writing, Nursing Assisting Skills and/or Office Management knowledge, protocols and abilities

Experience:

03/2009 to Present Seafood Supply Company, Inc. Dallas, Texas

Data Entry - Input order data on fish product to be shipped out via truck to the various restaurants, stores, etc. in Texas; part-time work

1999 to 11/2008 Oakland Building and Floors Royal Oak, MI

Data Entry and Sales – maintained office records on Word, Power Point, Excel and Quick Books; typed Contracts, Extra Work Orders, Estimates, business letters, maintained billing, set-up and participated in Builder’s Shows, Sales and Marketing – writing ad copy, newsletters and weekly meetings

1999 to 2004 Assistance to Mother / Hospice Care Flint, MI

I provided Companionship /Hospice Care – (From 1994 to 1999 I would eat dinner with my mother seven (7) days a week; take her to Mass, shopping, etc.) Then, in 1999, I assisted with my mother’s recovery when she was hit by a car (a hit and run) while she was walking to her car in O’Toole’s restaurant parking lot. Her left foot was nearly twisted off. She was brought to my home for recuperation while her foot healed. I then brought her home and continued assistance from 2001 when her health started to fail. I provided Hospice Care 24/7 in 2003 until her death on February 8, 2004.

2000 to 2001 On the Town – Magazine – Owned by Harry Mc Vey Linden, MI

Freelance Writer – wrote articles on local businesses, entrepreneurs, politicians, artists, musicians and people of interest in and around Genesee County; the owner died and the magazine folded in 2002

1998 to 1999 GM – Milford Proving Ground – Manpower Milford, MI

Technical Writer – Manpower Contract to assist Chuck Degenfelder, Engineer , with his study on temperature, humidity and moisture; the results were instrumental in opening a proving ground in Mexico

1996 to 1998 GM – Powertrain – Manpower Bay City, MI

Technical Writer – Manpower Contract to write technical manuals in the Quality Department for preparation of QS 9000. Kept business meeting notes, drove to Warren, MI to retrieve problem parts, assisted with Industrial Filming in the Plant with editing and scriptwriting. End result, plant was certified in QS 9000.

1994 to 1996 Country Home Creations Goodrich, MI

Managed the office; took phone orders for product; bookkeeping; packaged dips to be sold internationally; went to Chicago, Pennsylvania, etc. to sell the products at the various trade shows

1981/2001 Assisted Friend, Mentor Donald B. Williams, Sr./Hospice Southfield, MI

Donald was diagnosised with Polycythemia Vera (PV) in 1981 and only given 3 to 5 years to live. Initially, the medical community wanted to do very aggressive treatment i.e. immediately remove his spleen and very stroung rounds of chemotherapy. He chose to forego their recommendations and followed a more nutritional approach, instead. Finally, in 1993, his spleen was removed – it weighed 15 pounds – the size of a watermelon - when it should be no more bigger than the size of your fist. Literally, from 1981 until his death, I drove him all over the United States seeking non-invasive help for his condition – as a result, he lived twenty years for the effort. He became a vegetarian, juiced, took megadoses of Vitamin C, exercised daily, played 18 holes of golf twice weekly, drank herbal teas from Dr. Fu Zang, M. D., consulted with Dr. Linus Pauling, Ph. D., Dr. Robert C. Atkins, M. D., Dr. Carleton Fredericks, M. D., Dr. Gary Null, Ph. D. and the doctors at the V.A. Hospital in Ann Arbor, who wrote articles about him. They said that they had never seen a PV patient like him and to have lived as long as he had. I provided hospice care for Donald from 2000 until his death on October 7, 2001.

1992 and 1994 Healing Springs Ranch Tioga, TX

Assistant Manager of vegetarian “Bed and Breakfast” and personal Winter residence of author and radio personality, Gary Null. The compound could sleep 110 in the various buildings on the 100 acre ranch. I did the cleaning, cooking, renting of rooms to various groups that drove in from Dallas, fed the animals and did the day-to-day working ranch duties. Gary’s brother, Howard Null, was the manager of the ranch when he was in town. Howard was a psychologist, who’s specialty was drug and alcohol abuse. I was able to intern with him when clients would come to the ranch for assistance. Howard died in 2003 from a brain anyerism from complications due to throat cancer. I also wrote for the Tioga Times newspaper; the editor wanted me to be the editor, but I moved back to Michigan to assist Mr. Williams after his surgery in 1993.

1989 to 1990 The Detroit Free Press –Newspaper Detroit, MI

Comedy Critic – attended a six (6) week comedy class to train comedians (and comedy critics) at the Chaplin’s Comedy Club in Redford, Michigan by Jonathan Round, comedian. We wrote our own material and performed our act on stage. I sent out query letters to the editors of the local newspapers to see if they would accept articles on the comedians. The Free Press responded. I was the only writer out of six (6) who stayed in class and became a critic for a newspaper…then, the war started in 1991 in the Middle East and the Joint Operating Agreement (JOA) between the papers in Detroit happened and no more freelance work was accepted from that point

1977 to 1988 Doctor’s Offices Farmington Hills and West Bloomfield, MI

Nursing Assistant and Office Manager – drew blood for blood profiles, five (5) hour glucose tolerance tests, Doppler’s, EKG’s, kept patient records, assisted doctors with patient exams, hired doctors and nursing staff, started IV’s, for therapies, wrote advertising copy, kept meeting notes and office records

1973 to 1977 Providence Hospital ER and Contingent Southfield, MI

Nursing Assistant – worked day shift and midnights; assisted doctors with stitches, setting broken bones, in examinations of patients, burns, cardiac arrests, gunshots, stabbings, drug overdoses, took vitals, EKG’s, admitted patients, took patients to maternity; and prepped bodies and took to morgue, etc.

1971 to 1973 St. Joseph Hospital (now Genesys in Grand Blanc, MI.) Flint, MI

Nursing Assistant on OB – GYN and Oncology Floors – worked day shift; assisted with patient care; gave baths, took vitals, wrote nursing notes, etc.

Education Mott Community College Flint, MI

Studied Art and Pre-Nursing while on waiting list to get into program; moved to Detroit to finish school and work

1978 to 1979 University of Detroit Detroit, MI

Studied Journalism

Associates Degree in 1981 Oakland Community College Royal Oak, MI

Liberal Arts - also studied Court Reporting, Pre-Med for Naturopathy, Pre-Nursing courses while on waiting list to get into program

Bachelor’s Degree in 1986 Wayne State University Detroit, MI

Broadcast Journalism – Radio, Television and Film; still on waiting list at WSU for second bachelor’s in Nursing

Interests – wrote sequel book and script to the movie, “HUD” ; wrote script and children’s book with illustrations on whales; have other projects – working on self-publication of projects

References - available upon request

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